A movie forum would be great too!

[Wallaroo]

Im a big fan of movies and have bought around 800 used VHS (mostly blockbuster) movies during the last three years, since they cost less than a dollar a piece due to the DVD. I for one would be very interested in a movie/film/flick forum, and I am sure others would too.

[partofme]

I might post about old movies but I don't see too many news ones that interest me.

[Traveler]

Well why not add it in as part of the music forum? Say something like "sound and screen" or music and film or something like that? At the moment the music forum seems more than a little dry, this might help that forum some. Just an idea.

[Calvin X]

Sounds cool to me.

[steveox]

Id like a Movie and TV forum too.

[MilleVanille]

Yeap, movie forum has to be!

[enigma2]

Originally Posted by MilleVanille

Yeap, movie forum has to be!

Excellent idea!

[Tethys]

I think it's a great idea.

But I agree that films should be incorporated with the music forum - together with other forms of entertainment and the arts (such as TV, the theatre and fine art).

In another post, I had suggested that the media and culture issues forum be revised. It is not clear to me why music is on its own as a sub-forum in the Miscellaneous section, while other forms of the arts come under media and culture in the Issues Politics section.

I’m not sure, however, if discussion topics related to the politics of the media and culture, as distinct to discussing content, should be in the same forum.

Tethys

[ViolaLee]

I agree. I thinking of making a thread about 2 documentaries I just watched and highly recommend. Rent "The Life of Harvey Milk" and "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill". San Francisco history. Beautiful and tragic.

Tethys made a good point about the music forum. It makes sense it should be in media, and movies could be right next to it.

[Jason Marcel]

Many of my friends know me as MovieJay. I have nearly 400 DVD's, but it's the quality that I try to achieve more than the number. About the only movies I have that I would give a Thumbs Down to would be Superman's 3 and 4 which are part of a larger boxed set.

Here's a list of my favorite films of 2006:

1. Babel
2. United 93
3. Army of Shadows
4. the Queen
5. the Departed
6. Little Children
7. the Proposition
8. 51 Birch Street
9. Blood Diamond
10. An Inconvenient Truth

Other favs of 2006 include: the Death of Mr.Lazarescu, L'Enfant, Cache, 49 Up, Children of Men, Marie Antoinette, Deliver Us From Evil, Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, the Last King of Scotland, the Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, Notes on a Scandal, Come Early Morning, Cars, the Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Bubble, Twelve and Holding, Akeelah and the Bee, Pan's Labyrinth, Heart of the Game, the Lake House, Man Push Cart, A Prairie Home Companion, Stranger Than Fiction, Thank You For Smoking, Three Times, Tsotsi, Shortbus, the King, and Volver.

That's 40 movies altogether, all of which are good enough to be seen twice. You'll notice that many are probably titles that you've never heard of: Man Push Cart? Three Times? Come Early Morning? Some of the best movies released these days fly under the radar since the movies that are advertised the most to us usually have a specific teenage demographic in mind. We've actually entered a new Golden Age in the cinema where some of the best movies are independent, foreign, or documentaries. Man Push Cart is about a middle eastern man who made a name for himself in his homeland as a singer, but now finds himself in America selling accessories to people on the street. The title pares everything the movie is about to it's bones. Three Times was an asian film set in three different periods of time, with a set of actors playing love interests in those three periods. It's a comparative look at love throughout the ages, but proves that matters of the heart never change. Come Early Morning was directed by Joey Lauren Adams who played Ben Affleck's love interest in Chasing Amy. It stars Ashley Judd in a knockout performance as a woman living in a small town.

All three of those movies were observant and perceptive to human behavior and if you find any of them on cable they're worth a look.

[Wallaroo]

I guess its unanimous then. One movie forum coming up....hopefully.

[Traveler]

Or get rid of the music forum (which is just a waste of a forum) and put them all in the Off Topic foum.

[ViolaLee]

I just watched F*CK!

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Good movie.

[JHC]

I agree, a movie forum would be fun.